Tom Robbins Quotes

First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then ...? Then you serve machines.

We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.

I had a great time creating the future on 'Minority Report,' and it's a future that is coming true faster than any of us thought it would.

I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture.

Technology is an enabler; you have to be at the cutting edge of technology - there is no choice.

Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings.

I see no reason to suppose that these machines will ever force themselves into general use.

We're living through the second Industrial Revolution.

The point is technology and innovation have advanced far past what DCGS is capable of doing. It's not an agile enough tool to be able to incorporate and integrate the most advanced technology that is on the shelf today that can be bought by our forces that frankly our war-fighting units want.

My obsession is with technology and how it can improve human life. In my view, what we have seen in the last 300 years is only a trailer.

I believe in the potential of all things possibly imagined that can be made into a reality. My uncle was a Swedish scientist, and in the 1970s, he would speak of computers controlling most things in the future and self-driving cars and wireless communication. All the things that we are living with now.

Swarms are one very simple way of keeping ourselves ahead of the machines.

It is difficult to predict technology more than 10 years out with any certitude, but what I observe is that change and innovation happens earlier and faster than we expect. We are constantly surprised at what technology can do.

Technology is growing in all possible ways. It is affecting our lifestyle also.

Someday it'll all be done by machine. Information machines.

I believe more than ever, machines will put new challenges, and that means we'll have to be more creative and more human, because that's the way to make the difference.

The Internet won't skip a beat, and neither will I. Technology is constantly changing and evolving.

Africa cannot afford to underestimate the power of technology to fast-track the continent's rise. Emerging technologies have played extraordinary roles in every aspect of the continent's most touted successes.

The tech world is not a new phenomenon; it's a new era.

I never viewed technology as a replacement for the human experience. I viewed it as something that could liberate the human experience.

Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines.

In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines will do the work that makes life possible and that human beings will do all the other things that make life pleasant and worthwhile

Where men had once howled and hacked at one another, and fought nip-and-tuck with nature as well, the machines hummed and whirred and clicked, and made parts for baby carriages and bottle caps, motorcycles and refrigerators, television sets and tricycles-the fruits of peace.

Thank God for machines. They can make a dog sing!